Search results for "absolute immunity"
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621JudgesI’m a Rifle Pointin’, Wife-Beatin’ Alcoholic But My Black Robe Gives Me Absolute Immunity, Right?
I adamantly disagree with that statement. I am the Chief Judge of this court. I don’t believe a pie or candy is...
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1.1KAppellate CircuitM&R Issued In Smith v. Judge David Hittner and It’s All About Absolute Immunity
The Court RECOMMENDS that Defendant Judge Hittner’s Motion to Dismiss be GRANTED and the case against him be DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.
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785Appellate JudgesWhere Do You Find a Crack In Absolute Immunity Pertaining to Law Clerks? Well, Try Right Here.
A clerk of a federal court performing routine duties such as entering and order and notifying parties does not enjoy an absolute...
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3.1KLITAbsolute Immunity from Tampering, Ask the Texas Supreme Court is the Anticipated Defense for Hands-On Sheriff Frank Osborne.
According to the indictment, Sheriff Osborne removed the arrest of a woman from the Matagorda County Sheriff's Office jailing record computerized database,...
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1.3KAppellate JudgesAbsolute Judicial Immunity Applies. The Bias State Court Judge Resigned
In an opinion from the Sixth Circuit Opinion.
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1.2KDebt CollectorFlorida Bar: Litigation Immunity PreSuit is Not Absolute
In Florida, the law has long looked with disfavor on…slander actions against lawyers uttered in the due course of judicial procedure except...
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529Judicial BranchJudicial Proceeding Immunity Provides Sweeping Protection to Pro Se Litigants
Whilst Attorney Immunity is Overbroad, judicial proceedings immunity provides the same level of protection to non-prisoners before the court.
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1.0KAppellate CircuitLouisiana Supreme Court: Rogue Judges and Law Clerk Not Entitled to Judicial Immunity
The law clerk’s actions appears to be a violation of criminal law and the judges could also be subject to prosecution for...
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1.3KAppellate JudgesWhat’s Defined As Legal Extortion and Do Attorneys Receive Immunity from Prosecution?
Attorney Mousavi was thereby attempting to obtain the property . . . from another . . . by a wrongful use of...
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792Federal JudgesThere’s No Immunity for the Magistrate Judge In His Official Capacity
Because the defendant Magistrate was sued in his official capacity only, judicial immunity provided him no protection.
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1.1KAppellate JudgesIt’s Magic: Judicial Immunity Denied in Federal Court
Judge Eighmy seized and jailed the two minor children, who were not before him as parties because he wanted to teach them...
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1.4KAppellate JudgesHall v. McRaven, Supreme Court of Texas and Judge Don Willett’s Sovereign Immunity Concurrence
Former Texas Supreme Court Justice Donny Willett may be changing his stance on Qualified Immunity in recent opinions at the Fifth Circuit,...
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1.3KAppellate JudgesWell Jimmy Choo. Texas Supreme Court to Decide on Transactional Attorney Immunity
Transactional lawyers counsel individuals and organizations on the legal issues generated by their business dealings.
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1.0KAppellate JudgesJudicial Immunity: Court Reporters are Not Protected
The Supreme Court has rejected judicial immunity for court reporters whose function is to produce verbatim trial transcripts.
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1.1KAppellate JudgesJudge Not Protected by Immunity Defense When It’s a Perversion of Justice
A Superior Judge who was charged with examining Judge DiLeo’s conduct overturned the defendant’s conviction and used the term, perversion of justice...
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1.6KAppellate CircuitChief Judge Priscilla Owen’s Panel Reversed by Supreme Court in Qualified Immunity Case. LIT’s Judicial Profiling is Vindicated, Again.
The Fifth Circuit is reversed [for showing no emotion nor humanity and] for incorrectly applying qualified immunity when clearly that protection was...
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2.5KEditors ChoiceTexas Bar and BODA Insulated ‘Absolutely’ from Litigation Sayeth Chief Justice Brian Quinn. That’s Fake News Too.
In enacting the Texas Tort Claims Act the legislature waived sovereign immunity in limited circumstances involving the use of publicly owned automobiles,...
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2.1KEditors ChoiceWhy Sweeping Attorney Immunity Laws are So Wrong: Prosecutors face disbarment and civil lawsuits for withholding evidence in widening Mass. drug lab scandal
As long as humans are allowed too much independence without auditing and control, then there will always be those that become bad...
